How can a manager influence workers’ activity, while knowing little about it ? This paper examines a situation where production requires several tasks, and the manager wants to direct production to achieve a preferred allocation of effort across tasks. However, the effort that is required for...

Analyzing the diffusion within an organization of a new official identity discourse, we connect fragmented identification – defined in terms of opposing emotions, opposition between different levels of identification or opposition between the emotional and cognitive components – and...

The article reports that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) economy-sustaining workforce is comprised of foreign nationals that are hired for temporary job positions. This trend is called impatriation, and the practice is the core of international human resources management (HRM). Most economic...

The aim of this chapter is to better understand how identity regulation – a key mode of control – is exercised within organizations. This process ‘encompasses the more or less intentional effects of social practices upon processes of identity construction and reconstruction’ (Alvesson &...

Continuity and change are at the core of intergenerational diversity. By linking the literature on generations with the concept of dynamic capabilities, the aim of this paper is to offer a better understanding of how intergenerational relationship contribute to the organizational dynamic. The...

Currently, telework stands a s one of the fastest developing illustrations of the so called virtual organization. Although it has started to boom in Europe, it still raises reluctance in companies that may implement it in their teams. One main reason listed in the literature for this reluctance...